The Flying Gang story starts off the coast of La Florida, when in 1715, the Spanish Treasure Fleet sank during a hurricane. The salvage effort would bring an empire and pirates to Florida’s Treasure Coast and culminate with the establishment of the Republic of Pirates in Nassau, New Providence; in the Bahama Islands.\n \n This pirate “government” called themselves the "Flying Gang". Hornigold, Teach (Blackbeard), Calico Jack Rackham, Ann Bonny & Mary Read to name a few, garnered enormous wealth, established their own codes and governed themselves independent of the colonial powers at the time. They were an iconic symbol of rebellion.